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From: gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca (Gerard Stafleu)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Attikamek-Montagnais Protest PCB Plan
Message-ID: <3755@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 6 Sep 89 13:01:31 GMT
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In article <2482@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>, bpd@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca 
   (Brian P. Dickson) writes:
>  [Enlightning factual article deleted]

Finally some facts, definitely helpful.  I have a question about the 
burning of PCB's, though.  I have always heard that the risk of this is 
that dioxins can be formed as a by-product.  In small quantities, true, 
but toxicologically speaking, for some dioxins, there is no such thing 
as a small quantity.  The dioxins get into the exhaust from the burning 
plant, and then end up in the country side.  News reports from the plant 
in Wales seem to indicate that this happened there.  Any comments?

On a related matter, I remember hearing a year or so ago that someone, I 
think at McMasters, had come up with a non-burning way of PCB 
destruction.  It involved Sodium, and you basically ended up with 
harmless, non-chlorinated oil and table salt.  This obviously avoided 
any dioxin hazard.  Does anyone know what hppened to this?


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